I travel a lot. My wife is addicted to listening to NPR in the morning,
NPR, certain siriusXM news stations, and podcasts in the early evening.
She picks up the controller out of the dock, chooses a favorite, and it
all just comes on (the amp is audio-sensing auto on). In the many
years we've
Stratmangler wrote:
It appears that the OP is simply having a snipe at Logitech, which is
something they've done on the wrong forum.
Sadly some folk have difficulty dealing with sophisticated devices.
The Sonos is something that requires less understanding to operate, so
I'm sure the OP
@gw43 Presumably you know that Logitech has abandoned Squeezebox.
Further as a member of these forums you presumably know that this is a
user forum. Thus what kind of a reaction did you expect by complaining
to users here that you couldn't work the Touch?
Sorry your Squeezebox experience was less than what you wanted it to be.
Hopefully Sonos will provide what you want. The desire to appear to be
tech savvy or requiring it to use something is a unique mindset from my
perspective, although I am sure there are those to whom that does hold
an
gw43 wrote:
I'll take your points in order.
I'm not having a snipe at Logitech - when the Touch worked it was great.
What I came home from work and wanted to listen to something to
something from my collection and I turned it on, it was great. What
wasn't great was the (sadly frequent)
gw43 wrote:
What wasn't great was the (sadly frequent) times when I had to spend
20-30 minutes fannying* about with the software to get it working. What
wasn't great was on my wife's days off her calling me at work to say she
couldn't get internet radio working.
snip
Sophisticated devices
Cut-Throat wrote:
. *-What will happen if we use XP after cut off date?
''Even if you have an unsupported version of Windows XP or Windows Vista
without any service packs, Windows will continue to start and run as
usual,'' says MS.
-*
I would be perfectly content if MOG
I imagine other MOG subscribers received this email today from Ian C
Rogers, Beats Music CEO iancrogers at beatsmusic dot com.
I'm not a fan of the Beats Dr Dre headphones, but it sounds as if the
streaming service could be a good product. It's interesting to me that
they put so much emphasis
Hm, call me a cynic, but that human curated music part is the one I
like the least, it sounds like we will try to bring the old 'record
companies buy their way to user's ears' business model back to the
modern age'
I do listen to music curated by actual humans I know and trust - my
friends with
Ikabob wrote:
In my opinion, i do not think that the new Beats service will just dump
MOG subscribers and leave them high and dry. I just do not think that a
new service that is trying to establish respect and trust with new
subscribers would want to dump loyal long time existing MOG
Whoops! There goes all my playlists. Guess I was too optimistic about
Beats. I ,for one, am disappointed. Sill have Rhapsody though.
Maybe some kind soul will pick up this need and create a tool to convert
playlists between services. I've seen this for Deezer - Spotify
before. It should be
In my opinion, i do not think that the new Beats service will just dump
MOG subscribers and leave them high and dry. I just do not think that a
new service that is trying to establish respect and trust with new
subscribers would want to dump loyal long time existing MOG subscribers.
That would
Cut-Throat wrote:
. Just like Windows has not pulled the Plug on XPThey keep
sending updates.
For a few more months, ending in April 2014.
http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=15976895channelId=-1073865029programId=14369935
toby10 wrote:
For a few more months, ending in April 2014.
http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=15976895channelId=-1073865029programId=14369935
Sure, but.
-WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE USE XP AFTER CUT OFF DATE?
''EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN
Well the fact that beats bought MOG to be able to launch a streaming
service says to me there's likely to be at least a few common parts at
least in the background. Perhaps it may even be as simple as a
rebranding exercise with existing access still working. Complete
speculation on my part
Ikabob wrote:
In my opinion, i do not think that the new Beats service will just dump
MOG subscribers and leave them high and dry.
I don't think Beats will just dump MOG subscribers either -- that would
make no sense. But continuing MOG services is not the same thing as
continuing MOG services
aubuti wrote:
I don't think Beats will just dump MOG subscribers either -- that would
make no sense. But continuing MOG services is not the same thing as
continuing MOG services in a SB-compatible way. I strongly suspect that
SB users are a small minority of MOG subscribers.
At some time
I thought I would ask Beats Audio myself, so I e-mailed them and asked
about the Squeezebox integration.
*-Hey Kevin,
Thanks for following up. I'll pass on your feedback to our product team.
Please know that we would love to develop a Squeezebox integration,
it's just a matter of prioritizing
Cut-Throat wrote:
I thought I would ask Beats Audio myself, so I e-mailed them and asked
about the Squeezebox integration.
*-Hey Kevin,
Thanks for following up. I'll pass on your feedback to our product team.
Please know that we would love to develop a Squeezebox integration,
it's just a
aubuti wrote:
MOG support could well become a moot point very soon on both platforms.
MOG has been acquired by Beats Music, and Beats Music has not been very
clear about their plans for the transition. I read something in another
thread about a cut-over on January 21, but without any details
Cut-Throat wrote:
I think alienating MOG/SB Touch Users would not be part of the plans of
Beats Audio.snip
Cut-Throat wrote:
The thing that worries me, is that the current SB Touch Pluggin would
fail to operate under the new MOG.
That's exactly my point. Beats doesn't have to be out to
aubuti wrote:
snip
That's exactly my point. Beats doesn't have to be out to alienate SB
users deliberately. But it's quite likely that their new service will
have a different API, and Logitech is no longer positioned to adapt.
Sure, Beats wants partners (esp live partners like ATT), but
Cut-Throat wrote:
as you probably know there are a lot of folks developing all kinds of
Pluggins for the SB Touch.
but they will still require an open API, which beats may or may not
provide. I don't even think the current MOG provides an open API (thus,
we need mysb.com and official app for
Looks like Sonos is ready for the Beats change over. Logitech?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sonos/status/422135202492596224/photo/1/large?screen_name=Sonos#!/Sonos/status/422135202492596224/photo/1/large?screen_name=Sonos
garym wrote:
but they will still require an open API, which beats may or may not
provide. I don't even think the current MOG provides an open API (thus,
we need mysb.com and official app for it to work).
We'll see, won't we?
There are other solutions, if the Touch won't work anymore.
Thinking about the Beat Audio launch scheduled this month. It would not
be a very good launch plan to render MOG useless for all Squeezebox
Touch users. I am sure that they are aware that they have quite a few
Monthly Subscriptions from Squeezebox Touch users. If you think about
it, this would be
Cut-Throat wrote:
We'll see, won't we?
There are other solutions, if the Touch won't work anymore.
Yep, tons of reasonable solutions for streaming from services or
internet radio. Fewer *flexible* solutions for our own music
collections that does all that SB does.
*Location 1:*
Cut-Throat wrote:
Thinking about the Beat Audio launch scheduled this month. It would not
be a very good launch plan to render MOG useless for all Squeezebox
Touch users. I am sure that they are aware that they have quite a few
Monthly Subscriptions from Squeezebox Touch users. If you think
aubuti wrote:
How much do you wanna bet?
Only kidding, but sorry, I bet the number of monthly subscriptions from
SB users (and it can be any SB, no reason it has to be a Touch) is
pretty small in the Beats business plan scheme of things. Of course, I
don't have the numbers to back that
If you are buying a player just for Spotify (or mainly for) then I would
agree Logitech and Spotify made a complete hash of it. I tried it and
Spotify constantly crashed my Touch and the user interface is pretty
damn rubbish. You must get better results with Triode's plug in as there
seems to be
I've had no stability issues running Spotify or anything else I wanted
to use with the 2 Touches and Zyxel NSA310 (running LMS).
One Touch is on ethernet, the other wireless, and the NSA310 is
connected via ethernet.
It appears that the OP is simply having a snipe at Logitech, which is
something
I can't imagine losing the flexibility and extensibility (is that a
word?) of SB, especially with all the work going on with
CommunitySqueeze.
I love to experiment and tune; I believe that would be impossible in the
Sonos ecosystem.
I know Sonos has a support forum, but I cannot imagine a
Cut-Throat wrote:
If Sonos cannot stream MOG, it would be a non-starter for me!.. MOG
is a higher quality streaming service than Spotify.
It is integrated perfectly into the Squeezebox Touch that I can control
with my Laptop.
If Sonos can do this, I might look at it. Otherwise, it
gw43 wrote:
After so much hassle over the years with the software, drop-outs (even
using ethernet), Spotify implementation being a nightmare I took the
plunge and sold my Touch and got a Sonos.
I actually got more on eBay for the Touch than I paid, and the Sonos
seems so much more
gw43 wrote:
After so much hassle over the years with the software, drop-outs (even
using ethernet), Spotify implementation being a nightmare I took the
plunge and sold my Touch and got a Sonos.
I actually got more on eBay for the Touch than I paid, and the Sonos
seems so much more
There's certainly a lot of arguments you can make for Squeezebox vs.
Sonos but Spotify integration really isn't one of them.
Spotify integration in Sonos is pretty much exactly the same as on the
Squeezebox, it even has the same issues (Track not available in your
country)
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If my needs were simple like yours, I'd likely reach a similar
conclusion. Until someone else comes out with software that does as
many things as SB, however, I'm hanging on to mine.
2-SB3s, 1-Duet, 1-Touch...and an iPeng convert.
pippin wrote:
There's certainly a lot of arguments you can make for Squeezebox vs.
Sonos but Spotify integration really isn't one of them.
Spotify integration in Sonos is pretty much exactly the same as on the
Squeezebox, it even has the same issues (Track not available in your
country)
If I were starting over, I'd be tempted by Sonos:
- very nice hardware
- isolated mesh network
- it's the current it thing.
That said, our obsolete Squeezebox still has a lot going for it:
- free server, player and controller software
- cheap Android/linux hardware players
- hi-res and large
gw43 wrote:
sold my Touch and got a Sonos.
So Goodbye and happy days with your Badbuy
gw43 wrote:
So, goodbye! It's been emotional!
Do you want us to spend you a tissue ?
Gruss
Jan
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Sorry you did not have a better experience.
My Touch x2 work quite well for me thanks Logitech.
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